Randa Jarrar (Contributor of Nasty Women)

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Randa Jarrar

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in Chicago, The United States

January 04, 1978

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Randa Jarrar is a Palestinian-American author, translator, performer, and professor.

Jarrar's first novel, the coming-of-age story A Map of Home (2008), won her the Hopwood Award, and an Arab American Book Award. Since then she has published short stories, essays in a number of anthologies and collections as well as her short story collection, Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (2016), and her memoir, Love Is an Ex-Country (2021).

Jarrar was born in 1978 in Chicago, to an Egyptian mother and a Palestinian father. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt. After the Gulf War in 1991, she and her family returned to the United States, living in the New York area.

Jarrar studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, receiving an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from ...more

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“I knew from the beginning that home meant fighting, arguing, and embellishing, and that鈥檚 why I loved school. School was where my parents were not. Teachers were there; they taught us facts based on reality. They weren鈥檛 supposed to love us, and they didn鈥檛. They were English and cold and didn鈥檛 resemble us at all. I liked this, that they did not hold a mirror up to me. Like some kids felt about play, school was my true escape.”
― Randa Jarrar, A Map of Home

tags: home, school

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“Uncle Fawzi said I was not to become a martyr. He said I was too smart and the homeland needed me alive.”
― Randa Jarrar

tags: martyrdom, palestine, religion

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“Westerns began to make sense. The hubris of white men began to make sense. For what was this landscape but a canvas to swing a dick around in?”
― Randa Jarrar, Love Is an Ex-Country

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